Problems are opportunities in overalls.

— Unknown source

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

— Unknown source

Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble.

— Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958

Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale, yellow balloon, letting it go, watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky.

— Barbara Markoff, U.S. art consultant, 1931-2019

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

— Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents, 1876-1958

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution, it’s that they can’t see the problem.

— G.K. Chesterton, English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, known for his popular sayings, 1874-1936

Every path has its puddle.

— English proverb

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

— Bernard M. Baruch, U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

— Stanley Arnold, U.S. business leader and consultant

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

— Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

— Theodore N. Vail, U.S. leader of the American Telephone & Telegraph who viewed telephone service as a public utility and moved to consolidate telephone networks under the Bell system, 1845-1920

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

— Henry J. Kaiser, U.S. industrialist who established the Kaiser Shipyards after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum, Kaiser Steel, and Kaiser Permanente health care.1882-1967

There is no movement without our own resistance.

— Laura Schlessinger, U.S. talk radio host, author, and an inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Born 1947

The best way out of a problem is through it.

— Unknown source

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

— Laurence J. Peter, Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the Peter principle – managers rise to the level of their incompetence, 1919-1990
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